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Once he came to me about a legal difficulty in connexion with the deed of trust of his chapel; and although I could not help him myself, I directed him to such help as was thorough and cost him nothing.I need not say he never became a churchman, or that I never expected he would.All his memories of a religious childhood, all the sources of the influences which had refined and elevated him, were surrounded with other associations than those of the Church and her forms.…Cited from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, G. MacDonald

He spent much of his career, however, in dispute with various powerful churchmen.

Of course there could be nothing else with you.You are so different to all other Churchmen I have ever known.…Cited from The Master-Christian, Marie Corelli

The fool is sure to say something so silly that I can snub him within an inch of his life.I've only been holding off until he had that thing written for the Churchman.…Cited from The Puritans, by Arlo Bates

In the reign of Stephen the question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction ad been raised at the trial of Bishop Roger of Salisbury; but in this case too the difficulty had been evaded by a temporary expedient, and the real principle at issue was left untouched.Thomas had in fact taken up a position which had never been claimed by any great churchman of the past.The rising tide of ecclesiastical feeling had swept him on far beyond any of his predecessors.…Cited from Henry the Second, by Mrs. J. R. Green

He tried to repair relations with the cathedral chapter, claiming Henry II had compelled him to act as he did and that he had been cruelly deceived - a claim that probably met with incredulity.He also continued to exercise considerable influence over other leading churchmen.…

European students of C. West Churchman are Werner Ulrich and Kristo Ivanov who developed his work in related fields and contributed to its diffusion in Europe.Churchman made significant contributions in the fields of management science, operations research and systems theory.During a career spanning six decades, Churchman investigated a vast range of topics such as accounting, research and development management, city planning, education, mental health, space exploration, and peace and conflict studies.…

In the meanwhile, he looked upon Halbert with a serious and warning aspect, and held up his finger to him as he signed farewell.He then joined the rest of the churchmen, and followed his Superior down the valley.…Cited from The Monastery, by Sir Walter Scott

Teachers were scarce, there was no theory of education except the religious theory, and few knew what to do or how to do it.Many churchmen, too, did not see the need for doing anything.…Cited from The History Of Education, By Ellwood P. Cubberley

They were probably placed in their present situation while the building was in possession of the Churchmen.Cited from The Life of Lord Byron, by John Galt

This is God's method with us in His Church, and what is it but St Paul's method with these Corinthians?Believe this, then, you who wish to be Churchmen in spirit and in truth.Believe that St Paul's conduct is to you a type and pattern of what God does, and what you ought to do.…Cited from All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, by Charles Kingsley

Something different may be talked of and written of in the capitals; but among the hundred millions of the people this is what is done, this is what is taught, and nothing more.Churchmen may talk of something else, but this is what they teach by every means in their power.All this, and the worship of relics and of ikons, has been introduced into works of theology and into the catechisms.…Cited from Kingdom of God is within you, by Leo Tolstoy

There was a long career before him as a leader among churchmen fallen upon troubled days.He became Bishop of Exeter and was translated to Norwich.…Cited from Character Writings of the 17th Century, by Various

But we are not concerned to study him as a good churchman.It is by no means clear that we are concerned to study him as a churchman at all.The Papacy had by this time become far less of an ecclesiastical than a political force; the weapons of the Church were there, but they were being employed for the furtherance not of churchly, but of worldly aims.…Cited from The Life of Cesare Borgia, by Rafael Sabatini

For its private study involved its private interpretation.Each reader, even if a Churchman, became in some sort a church to himself.Hence the hundred sects and thousand doctrines that astonished foreigners and opened England's strange path to intellectual liberty.…Cited from Study of the King James Bible, Cleland Boyd McAfee

Among many thousands of women you're one who has bucked against your churchmen.They tried you out, an' failed of persuasion, an' finally of threats.…Cited from Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey

If I had told him what I found upon his hill or in his fields he would have thought me -- well, crazy; or he would have suspected that under cover of such a quest I hid some evil design.As well talk adventure to an old party man, or growth to a set churchman.So I left him there within his walls.…Cited from Great Possessions, by David Grayson

The royal treasury was being emptied by the demands of the war.Churchmen and others who had initially supported the war of fire and blood now questioned the policy.Mistreatment and enslavement of the Chichimeca by Spaniards increasingly came to be seen as the cause of the war.…

A few years ago I met the editor of this same HOME CHURCHMAN.It was at one of the weekly dinners of that Fleet Street dining club, the Blackfriars.…Cited from The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells

Such reconciliation commenced, I believe, from the tenth century, when the Latin moralists began to be studied as a part of a theological course.It was continued with still greater results when Greek literature became accessible to churchmen.Afterwards, the physics of Galileo and of Newton began not only to undermine numerous superstitions, but to give to men a confidence in the reality of abstract truth, and in our power to attain it in other domains than that of geometrical demonstration.…Cited from Phases of Faith, by Francis William Newman